Garment hanger



F. M. RAUCH GARMENT HANGER July 15 Filed Nov. 10, 1923 w W T. T. A

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&gipiieation flleol November 10, 11.023. Serial N0. 374,010.

T0 all whom z't may concem:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK M. RAUCH, a citizenof tha United Staates, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia,

have invented certain new and useful Im -menizhanger provided with my improved ers, and particularly to tl1at dass of garment hanger wherein' there is provided a garment detainer having upwardly extending garInent-engaging shoulders disposed on each si ie of the middle thereof and adapted 110 engage the neck of a garment.

In dry goods stores where garmentsare put up for sale on hangers and where they aro constantly being handledl, it is diflicult to keep the garment from slipping oif the hanger, particularly Where the garment.has a relatively wide neck. The garm'ents am lialole to slip ofi the hanger and onto the floor and remain there until the' clerks Piok them up and. replace thein on the hangers. In order to prevent this, .it is necessary to provide the garment hanger with upwardly extendin shouldiers disposed on each side of the m1ddle of the hanger-and adapted to engge the neck of th6garment to' hold the neck expanded and prevent the bangen from accidentally shifting within the garment.

The general object of the present invention is to provide a garment retainer f01 hangers of this character which may be cheaply made of resilient wire and which are adapted to be engaged with the arms of the hanger and slide thereon, and which are further so constructed th*at though the retainers may be readily shifted outward on the arms of the hanger, they cannot be readily or accidentally shifted inward.

A further object is to provide a device of this character Which is provicled with an upwardly and outwardly extending finger which will engage with and overhang the opening of the garment so as to prevent the accidental de tachment of the garment from the hanger, these retainers being adapted to be shifted along the arms of the garment until the garment is fully engaged with the hanger and cannot accidenta ly become detached.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character which is very simple, which may be cheaply constructed, und

IGNOR OE UNE- wl1ich may loe made so as to fit all standarol sizes of hangers.

My invent1on is illustrated. in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figuren 1 is a side elevation of a gar- Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the retaining cleats.

Referring to these drawings, 10 desig 1'1ates an ordinary form of garment hanger made of an arcuate strip of wood, composition or like material, this strip being relatively t-hin and having rounded upper edges. The strip at its middle is engaged by a supporting hook 11.

Disposed upon the arms of the hanger 10 are the retainers, designated generally 12,

which are preferably made of a single piecey,

of resilient wire bent as will be hereafter state d, this wire heing bent to form a hanger embracing loop 13, an upwardly and rearwardly directed finger 14, and a spring 15 terminating in a slight coil constituting a head 16. The retainer is placed upon the arm of the garment hanger, as sho wn in Figure 1, with the finger 14 directed upward and outward and with the loop 13 disposed at an angle less than a right angle to the longitudinal axis'0f the arm. The spring 15 bears against the lower edgeof the hanger, and it is the resiliency of this spring which urges the hanger into the inclined osition illustrated in Figure 1.

By pressing upon the finger 14 toward the end of the hanger, it is possible to force tho hanger outward along the arm, this acting to shift; the loop 13 into a position at right angles to the axis of tho arm. The finger 1 1 is formed by a loop, the ends of which are crossed at the intersecti0n of the finger 14 with the loop 13, and the resilience of the wire causes this loo 12 130 resiliently contract upon the arm of t e hanger. When an efi'ort is made to shift the detainer toward the middle of the hanger, however, any pressure against the upper end of the detainer tends to cramp the loop on tha arm and cause it to bind so that it cannot accidentally be moved toward the hook.

While I do not wish to be limited to any particnlar means for forming this detainer, I preferably construct it, as before stated, of one piece of wire. This piece is bent to form the hook 17, then bent to form one half of thd loop 13, then laterally bent and bent to form one-half o'f the finger 14, then returned upon itself to form the other half: of the finger 14 and the other half of the loop 13, and then an aged with the hook and bent longitudinal y to form the spring finger 15 and the scroll 16 at the end thereof. It is obvious th at this detainer c1ip might be constructed in o.ther ways than this, but I have found this particularly couvenient and effective und at the Same time very cheap.

A device of this kind may be' read1ly applied to all forms of garment hanger s vyhich are rectangular in cross sectionbut 1t 1s 0bvious that the detainer may be adapted to fit hangers which are otherwise formed in cross section. It is to be noted that the fingers 14 overhang the margins of the neck of the garment so that the garment 1s not only held from shifting movement upon the hanger but is he1d from accidental upward movement. Thus the garments are kept in good shape, retained upon the hangers without danger of being accidentally dlsengaged therefrom, and the hanger and the garment may be handled without chance of the garment dropping off the hanger.

It is to be understood that while the retainer is movable readily by design toward the end of the arm, yet it will not accidentally move but clasps the. arm of the garment hanger sufiiciently c1osely so that it Will stay wherever it may be placed until designedly shifted. y

I claim:-

1. A garment retainer for garment hangers comprising a loop adapted. to s1idabl engage the arm of a arment hanger an having an upwardly an o.utwardly extending arment retain1ng finger, the lower end of t%e loop being formed with an upad to embrace the arm 0 wardly and inwardly extending s rin adapted to bear against the under si e 0 said arm and to yieldingly hold the lonp clamped upon the arm.

2. A arment retainer for garment hangers ormed to provide an arm embracingloop, a finger extending upward and outward from the upper end of the loop, and. a spring extendin from the lower end of the hanger enggmg loop and axtending upward am]. inward and adapted to engage with the under face of the hanger arm and urge the loop into tilted osition with relation to the arm and. cause the loop to bind upon the arm against -movement in one direction but permitting the loop t0 have free movement upon the arm in the other direct1on.

3. A garment detainer for garment hangers of the character described formed of resilient wire and comprisin a loop adaptthe garment hanger, the loop being formed in oppositely disposed independent portions, the wires ab the upper end of the loop crossing each other and beim formed to rovide an elongated looped nger extendmg upward and ontward, one of the wires at the lower end 0f the 100 being engag'ed with the other wire and t en longitudinally and upwardly extended to form a resilient finger engaging the lower edge of the garment hanger.

4. A garment hanger having a supporting member, arms extending in opposite directions from the supporting member and a garment retainer d1sposed 0n each arm, the

retainer when disposed at right angles to the length of the arm being s lidable longitndi nally of the arm a nd when canted at lass than a right angle to the arm having damping engagement with the arm, each garment retainer having a garment retaining finger ab its upper end.

In test1mny whereof I hereunto afiix my signatura FREDERICK M. RAUCH. 

